Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)

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ITS and IntelliDriveSM for the Environment
AERIS Program Overview
Marcia Pincus Environment (AERIS) and ITS
Evaluation Program Manager Research and
Innovative Technology Administration, ITS Joint
Program Office US Department of Transportation
IntelliDrive is a registered service mark of the
US Department of Transportation.
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What is AERIS?
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What is IntelliDrive?

• IntelliDrive is a suite of technologies and
  applications that use wireless communications to
  provide connectivity
• Among and between vehicles of all types
• Between vehicles and roadway
• infrastructure
• Among vehicles, infrastructure
• and wireless consumer devices

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Major IntelliDrive Objectives

• Move aggressively on vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V)
  communications
• Accelerate in-vehicle technology
• Enables safety, active traffic management, and
  environment applications
• Accelerate infrastructure communications
  capability
• Signal Phase and Timing (SPaT) is an initial
  focus
• Enables safety, mobility, and environmental
  applications
• On-road multimodal pilot deployments for
  high-value applications
• Monitor and evaluation of driver distraction
  issues
• Understand benefits and communications needs
  (DSRC/other) of transformative mobility and
  environmental applications

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Overall Structure of IntelliDrive
Applications
Technology
Policy
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Why Do this Research?

• Environmental Problem

• Environmental Goal

• 2.9 billion gallons of wasted fuel each year 3
  weeks worth of gas for every traveler
• The transport sector accounts for approximately
  28 of GHGs in the U.S.
• Vehicles represent almost 80 of transport sector
  GHGs

• Emissions GHG Particulates
• Enable better environmental management of the
  system through V2V and V2I connectivity
• Enable eco-friendly options for traveler mobility

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Setting Some Context

• There are many strategies available to reduce
  transportations contribution to GHG levels and
  improve air quality
• ITS can contribute to these reductions
• The AERIS program is focused on assessing how ITS
  may contribute to GHG emissions reductions and
  air quality improvements, and how much, in an
  IntelliDrive-enabled future
• AERIS research will investigate, analyze and
  model IntelliDrive applications and scenarios to
  determine if they provide a significant
  environmental benefit, either individually or in
  combination
• NOTE Research is underway by many, but much
  more needs to be understood, modeled, tested and
  evaluated, especially in real-world, large scale
  test beds and test situations

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Environmental Data Supports Transformative
Applications
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AERIS Research Objectives

• Investigate whether it is possible and feasible
  to
• Generate/capture environmentally-relevant
  real-time transportation data (from vehicles and
  the system)
• Use this environmental data to create actionable
  information that can be used by system users and
  operators to support and facilitate green
  transportation choices for all modes
• Assess whether doing these things yields a good
  enough environmental benefit to justify further
  investment by the Department
• TRANSFORMATIVE and INNOVATIVE

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Imagine

• Vehicle Level
• Widespread eco-driving with signal phasing and
  timing (also at network level)
• Emissions-based credits in real time, that take
  into account where the driver is, the time of
  day, weather, vehicle operation, etc. to
  incentivize drivers
• Network Level
• Integrated Corridor Management (ICM)-like system
  able to optimize based on real-time environmental
  factors (e.g., on code-red air quality days)
• Real-time tradeoffs for environmental and
  mobility/economy/societal goals, for all modes,
  based on real-time system management needs
• Others
• Lowemission zones with an IntelliDrive component
• Applications that incentivize green choices
• Green platooning/eco-lanes or eco-corridors
• Alternative fuel vehicles including electric
  vehicle recharging stations with access to the
  grid
• Technologies that improve the greener operation
  of fleets including transit and freight

Complex multi-element scenarios using many
layered and leveraged ITS technologies/application
s
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Basic Research Questions
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AERIS Research Program

• Five Years, Six Tracks
• Multimodal Approach
• Working with Data Capture and Management Program
  and Dynamic Mobility Applications Program

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Dont Knows

• Environmental Data
• What environmentally-relevant data can we get
  from cars, trucks, buses, and other vehicle
  modes?
• Does this data support AERIS research objectives?
  If not, what do we need?
• How much is there? Is it useful?
• What types of data and how much is needed to make
  improvements in current models and algorithms?
• What is the cost to capture and archive this
  data?
• How can in-vehicle data best be integrated with
  transportation system and other data?
• How can we incentivize individual green
  choices, or facilitate network wide green
  decision making with this data?

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Dont Knows

• Evaluation
• In a data-rich IntelliDrive environment, what are
  the most state-of-the-art techniques for modeling
  and evaluating the performance of technologies
  that hope to show a definitive and worthwhile
  environmental benefit?
• Can evaluation results support validation of GHG
  reduction targets?
• What is the role of induced demand?

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Dont Knows

• Performance
• What does it mean to have an application that
  could potentially save 1 million tons of carbon
  every year?
• Is that a good result? For an individual
  application, or for a multi-application scenario?
  Nationally or locally or on a corridor?
• By how much should any ITS application or
  scenario be able to reduce GHG or improve air
  quality to be a viable candidate for future, more
  in-depth testing and perhaps eventual deployment?
• What technologies and data are needed to
  differentiate between the improvements in air
  quality as opposed to GHG?
• Different ITS applications may provide more air
  quality benefit than GHG, and vice-versa

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Recent Major AERIS Activities

• March 2010 Program Charter Signed multimodal
  support
• International Cooperation is underway
• ITS JPO / EU Sustainability Working Group created
  (met June 2011 in Brussels)
• ITS JPO / MLIT (Japans Ministry of Land,
  Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism) general
  Memorandum of Cooperation signed (met October
  2010 in Tokyo)
• Environment just one part of joint discussions
• October 2010 Seven (7) awards made in response
  to the AERIS Broad Agency Announcement
• December 2010 Webinar to introduce larger
  community to the AERIS Research Program
• December 2010 Expect to have two (2) State of
  the Practice scans complete
• State of the Practice in Research on ITS and the
  Environment
• State of the Practice in Evaluation Techniques
  for ITS and the Environment

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Future Plans

• Orlando ITS Word Congress (Fall 2011)
• Meetings at TRB with European and Japanese
  colleagues
• Possible Spring or Summer 2011 meetings in Europe
• Begin work on additional State-of-the Practice
  scans (activity-based travel models,
  environmental models, data acquisition
  technologies)
• Begin to develop AERIS Expert Technical Working
  Group
• Plan to conduct several, more detailed webinars
  on aspects of AERIS research program and
  results/findings
• Begin work on environmental data sets, scenario
  development, and analysis
• Workshop planned for Spring 2011 to create and
  define scenarios, better define scenario
  requirements and associated applications/technolog
  ies

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Contact
Marcia Pincus Program Manager, Environment
(AERIS) and ITS Evaluation, ITS Joint Program
Office Research and Innovative Technology
Administration, US Department of Transportation
marcia.pincus_at_dot.gov http//www.intellidrive.org
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Concluding Points

• The AERIS research program is multimodal, and
  multimodality is critical to the success of the
  program
• AERIS is IntelliDrive-focused
• Looking at GHG and air quality benefits (wider
  scope than most)
• Not looking at other environmental aspects yet
• Exploring a wide variety of communications
  technologies to see which ones are most effective
  for different approaches
• Exploring individual applications/technologies
  and multi-app scenarios
• International cooperation is important
• Leveraging as much pre-existing research as
  possible
• Seeking the input and participation of the larger
  community as we move forward, particularly in
  identification of applications and defining
  transformative and scenarios
• Feel free to contact any of todays presenters if
  you have questions/comments